Comparison Quotes
587 quotes by 527 authors
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and…
— Heinrich Heine
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There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.
— Lee Hall
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Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.
— Mick LaSalle
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Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison…
— Anuj
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable…
— Donald Kagan
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If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments…
— David Brin
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There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat…
— James Lileks
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Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.
— Pauline Marois
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Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who…
— David Niven
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The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and…
— Wayne Dyer
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Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you…
— Wayne Dyer
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A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like…
— E. M. Forster
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Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the…
— Steven Chu
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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
— Aldous Huxley
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
— Samuel Johnson
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The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of…
— George Santayana
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People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.
— Nomar Garciaparra
Who Wrote These Comparison Quotes
527 authors contributed a total of 587 Comparison Quotes, led by these top contributors: